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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Immanuel Kant

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
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Expectation Laughter Result Transformation
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
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Action Secret Spring
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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Heaven Law Mindset Moral Myself
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Action Moral Responsibility Worth
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
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Human Humanity Learning Peace
All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
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Law Moral Respect Simplicity
Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
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Art Beautiful Nature
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Beginning Experience Knowledge
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
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Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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Justice Live Man Worth
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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Dignity Lie Man
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
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Humanity Philosophy
All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
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Beginning End Human Ideas
Dare to think!
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Daring Thinking
Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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Happiness Human
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
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Beautiful Present Reason Understand

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